09/23/2014 - We are VERY excited about John's tour and new album Plain Spoken! John will be performing a number of these incredible new songs on his 80-city North American Tour. The shows on this tour will feature both classics and new material. It will be a night filled with incredible music, words, and performances.

GET TO KNOW THESE SONGS BEFORE THE TOUR! We want to remind you that included with each ticket you purchased for the 2015 North American Tour is a digital download of the new album, so DOWNLOAD YOURS TODAY! If you bought multiple tickets, be sure to share your extra digital download codes with your family, friends and co-workers! And if you have already purchased your tickets and haven't received your digital download codes, email
help@mellencamp.com
for downloading assistance!

Ticket buyers will receive an email once the album has been released and the download is ready. Purchases after Sept. 23 will receive the download within 7 days of order. One download code per ticket for online and phone purchases only; does not apply to box office or outlet ticket purchases. This promotion is available until August 4th, 2015 and is valid for United States and Canadian residents only.Read More

09/23/2014 - At 62, John Mellencamp has spent his nearly 40-year career ﬁguring out exactly where he ﬁts in the American grain, and he’s never inhabited traditional folk and blues-imbued settings as personally as on his 22nd album. Singing with gruff directness, the recent divorcé deals with relationship struggles (the somber “Tears in Vain”), as well as broader societal and moral worry (the hard-driving “Lawless Times”). He recorded the album in Indiana with executive production by T Bone Burnett, who has brought his stripped-down approach to Mellencamp’s recent albums. “I don’t trust myself, I don’t trust you,” he intones darkly. It’s a lonely old night, as he used to sing, and a raw one. Read More

09/23/2014 - John will be one of the performers at the 2015 MusiCares Person of the Year on Friday, Feb. 6, 2015, honoring Bob Dylan. Proceeds from the 25th annual benefit gala dinner and concert to be held in Los Angeles during GRAMMY Week two nights prior to the 57th Annual GRAMMY Awards will
provide essential support for MusiCares (www.musicares.org), which ensures that
music people have a place to turn in times of financial, medical and personal
need. Read the complete line up of performers and the full press release after the jump. Read More

09/22/2014 - On Tuesday, Jim Kerr sat down with John to talk about his new album, as well as share some needle drops of new tracks from the album, and he even surprised the crowd with a performance that included "Small Town," "Troubled Man," and "Jack & Diane." Listen to the interview HERE
and watch John's performance of "Jack & Diane," "Small Town," and "Troubled Man" on iHeart.com.Read More

09/22/2014 - This Saturday night, Sept. 27 at 9 PM ET, AXS TV will present an intimate
live performance by John Mellencamp. The Voice of the Heartland will feature a
mix of songs from his newly released album, Plain Spoken and classic songs. The
one-hour event titled “iHeartRadio Icons Live: John Mellencamp,” will be
broadcast live from his recording studio outside of Bloomington, Indiana. It
also comes on the heels of his performance earlier this month at Farm Aid 2014,
another AXS TV broadcast production, where he performed songs from Plain
Spoken and several of his classic hits in the much lauded set.

The special will be repeated on Saturday at 11 PM ET. Find your channel HERE and
click HERE to
learn more about the special. After the jump we have the full press release. Read More

09/19/2014 - USA Today is hosting an online album premiere for the entire Plain Spoken
album! There is an interview that accompanies the preview between John and USA
Today writer Elysa Gardner. The album premiere will be available now through
Monday night at 9 PM ET. Listen HERE and then post your thoughts about the record (including what your favorite track is) in the comments of the USA Today article, in the Mellencamp.com Community thread and on John's Facebook under THIS post. Read More

09/19/2014 - The rock icon talks with Esquire's Dan Hyman about his decades-long career, not giving a shit, the dangers of the Internet, and his grandfather's advice. Read this compelling interview after the jump. Here are some excerpts " I have a bunch of information in my head that I'm not afraid to put in song or onto a canvas..."

"What I'm drawing from now and what I was drawing from as a kid are totally two different things. Because what kind of person's interests stay the same their entire life?..." Read More

09/19/2014 - USA Today's Elysa Gardner spoke with John about his new album. Read the
complete piece after the jump. Here is an excerpt: "I didn't sit down and decide
I was going to make an album about certain topics," says Mellencamp, 62, of the
release, out Tuesday. "My mind is just open to ideas. I don't understand when
people talk about having writer's block. I think, you're thinking too much! Just
let it come to you." Read More

09/17/2014 -
On Thursday, September 18th, John called into the Boomer and Carton morning sports radio program around 9:45am. Earlier in the week, Craig challenged Boomer to book John as a guest on the radio program, this after the Blonde Bomber referenced the rock and roll star as a friend while giving away some tickets to an upcoming show.

Well the Booms’ claim proved to be true, John himself called in Thursday morning to chat with the guys for a few minutes. Watch and listen to their chat below.

09/15/2014 - Tickets will go on sale THIS week for all 80 shows on the 2015 Plain Spoken Tour! PRE-SALES BEGIN TOMORROW!

Mellencamp.com will once again be offering free pre-sale ticket access to members of Mellencamp.com to all shows. Learn how to join and access our pre-sales HERE.

Additionally, special pre-sales will be available to Citi cardmembers.

Both pre-sales begin on Tuesday, Sept. 16th at 10 AM local time and last through Thursday, September 18th at 10 PM.

PLAIN SPOKEN TOUR TICKET UPDATES
Tickets will go on sale to the general public FRIDAY for all 80 shows on the
2015 Plain Spoken Tour!

ALBUM INCLUDED WITH EACH TICKET
Included with each ticket purchased for the 2015 North American Tour is a
digital download of John's new album Plain Spoken! Share your digital download
codes with your family and friends that are attending the concert! The album is
released NEXT Tuesday, September 23rd.

PRE-SALES END THURSDAY!
Mellencamp.com pre-sales are underway for all 80 shows, including Diamond
Package Tickets! Pre-sales end Thursday, September 18th at 10 PM. The password
is FREEDOM. Purchase links, list of tour dates and updates are available on
Mellencamp.com's TOUR page.

Farm Aid is this Saturday in Raleigh, NC! Watch FarmAid.org for updates about
the concert. Here are some ways you can watch or listen live!

TV: If you can't join us in Raleigh, celebrate with us at home by watching
the concert live! Starting at 7pm EDT/4pm PDT, tune into AXS TV to watch the
show live in HD.

Webcast: We'll also be streaming the concert live in HD on farmaid.org
starting at 7pm EDT with our webcast, "Farm Aid 2014 Presented by Amy’s
Kitchen."

SiriusXM: And you can start listening live on Willie Nelson's SiriusXM
channel, Willie's Roadhouse (56), beginning at noon EDT. SiriusXM's Dallas Wayne
will host backstage interviews and behind-the-scenes coverage of the event.

As you get ready for Farm Aid 2014, we invite you and your friends to use the
#Road2FarmAid hashtag to share photos, videos and experiences. Visit Farm Aid's
#Road2FarmAid page to download official digital swag like social media
banners, cover images, web badges and more. You'll also find a link to the Farm
Aid 2014 concert app for iPhone and Android, with built-in easy ways to share
your journey. See the entire line up of performers and read the complete press release after the jump. Read More

09/09/2014 - Folk-rock and philosophy are the making's of John Mellencamp's new album, Plain Spoken. The music looks back towards Bob Dylan's "Blood On The Tracks, with strummed guitars, and brushes on the drums and neck-rack harmonica, and the words ponder trouble, power, love, God, freedom, and mortality - the concerns of a songwriter acting his age. Read More

09/09/2014 - Three weeks after John Mellencamp released the first single from his upcoming
album, the singer-songwriter has just unveiled another track. The song,
‘Sometimes There’s God,’ premiered at Parade.

Like ‘Troubled Man,’ the new cut is a roots-pulling number that reaches back to
Mellencamp’s most fertile period in the mid-’80s, when he was making classic
records like ‘Scarecrow’ and ‘The Lonesome Jubilee.’ Read More